Peanut Worm

Along with seashells and sealife, palm trees are even washing up on the beaches of Sanibel and Captiva.
I heard from blog friend Marcy that there were hundreds of SEA BISCUITS washing up on the east end of Sanibel. What? I've never seen SEA BISCUITS (they look like fat and puffy SAND DOLLARS) on this coast before, only in the upper Florida Keys. I ran down there and found these....
Tons of HEART URCHINS! This looks like a bunch of potatoes that just spilled out of a sack, right? That's why they are also called SEA POTATOES. I've never seen so many HEART URCHINS washed up like this... or SEA URCHINS.
I took this next picture because there were so many unusual sea critters all together in one place.
Let's start with that huge STONE CRAB claw that's laying on a PARCHMENT WORM, then clockwise is a PEANUT WORM (in the middle of the picture), a HEART URCHIN, HORSESHOE CRAB, a couple of SEA SPONGES, a PEN SHELL then the black blob is SEA PORK (not an oil tar …

Clark and I boated out to North Captiva and Cayo Costa today and found this flopping around in the shallow water. What the heck is it? I was thinking it was a live ANGEL WING that had peeped out from it's shell below but it's a PEANUT WORM. We found lots of SUNRAY VENUS CLAMS so maybe that's what the live mollusk looks like when he peeks out of his shell from below the surface. I didn't dig it up (Yikes!) to find out so I'd love feedback, if anybody knows what it is (as "clean" as possible, please- haha!).
It's a monster! This was the biggest SUNRAY VENUS that we found today. I didn't get a chance to clean it before I took this picture but most of that crud will come right off so it should be really pretty.
We were very happy to find MACULATED BABY'S EARS today too. These are the brown ones that aren't as common and have brown smears on them. The one to the right of the WENTLETRAP has spots on it. Also pictured....3 FALSE ANGEL WINGS, 2 RICE OLIVES, a BUBBLE, PEAR WHELK, …